The Arctic Ocean: The Frozen Sea That’s Quietly Changing the Whole World

The Arctic Ocean: The Frozen Sea That’s Quietly Changing the Whole World The Arctic Ocean is the smallest, shallowest and coldest of Earth’s five oceans, and it is also changing faster than any of them. In this documentary we travel from its frozen surface to its hidden seabed and follow the story of the life, people, history and politics around it. In this video you will discover: 🧊 How the Arctic Ocean is shaped: its seas, undersea mountain ridges, sea ice and deepest basin 🐻‍❄️ The wildlife that survives here, from polar bears, narwhals and bowhead whales to the Greenland shark and the Arctic tern 🏔️ The Inuit, Sami, Nenets, Chukchi and other Indigenous peoples who have called this land home for thousands of years 🚢 The explorers who tried to cross it, from the lost Franklin expedition to Nansen, Amundsen and the race to the North Pole ⚠️ Why the Arctic is warming nearly four times faster than the rest of the planet, and what that means for sea level, weather and the monsoon ⚓ The new shipping routes, resources and rivalries that are turning the Arctic into a centre of world politics 🇮🇳 India’s own link to the Arctic, from the Himadri research station to its Arctic policy 🌱 The Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the MOSAiC expedition, two examples of science working in the cold The Arctic may be the farthest corner of our planet, but it is not separate from us. What happens there reaches coastlines, farms and weather systems thousands of kilometres away. 👍 If you enjoyed this video, please like it, subscribe to the channel and share it with a friend who loves geography and nature. 💬 Which place should we explore next? Tell us in the comments.